The South Leads

04/30/2010

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audrey Lorde, 1934-1992, Writer and Activist

In the report, Pre-Kindergarten in the South, prepared by the Southern Education Foundation, the executive summary is titled, "Pre-K — The South Leads the Nation," and states....

"There is an all-important exception to the pattern of Southern underperformance [in education, innovation, productivity and income]: high-quality, early childhood education — pre-kindergarten (Pre-K). As a result, the South in 2007 led the nation in offering state-funded Pre-K to three- and four-year-old children:

19% of three- and four-year-olds in the South are in state-funded Pre-K, more than double the rate in non-South states
Two-thirds of the states with the highest standards for Pre-K are in the South
Only six states require full-day Pre-K programs statewide, and all are in the South
Nine Southern states fund Pre-K above the national average cost per child.

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